Re: webid predicate

On 19 Sep 2018, at 00:08, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com<mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All

This was raised a few years back, but not resolved.

We dont have a predicate for webid itself.

It would be useful in heterogeneous systems to write

[]  :webid <myPreferredURI> .

by using <myPrefferedURI>  you are speaking of the thing, not the URI.
<-> is a function from String to URIRef, written mathematically as:

    <->: String → URIRef

This means it can be substituted with co-referring terms. So that's not what you want.
You'd need

person :webid "http://bblfish.net/people/henry/card#me"^^xsd:anyURI .
to refer to the URI as a URI.

What would be the domain and range of that relation?


Let me give you a use case.  In th popular web 2.0 federated microblogging service, mastodon, you are allowed to specify key value pairs to tie to your profile (nice!).  So what would be valuable would be to add a webid, with the appropriate label so that it is possible to follow your nose to the linked data universe.

The question is where to put it.

Strangely enough webid doesnt actually have an identity vocab.  Should we start one perhaps?

It could also go on the cert ontology, tho not quite the right place.

It could also go in the solid vocab, which seems kind of OK.  For various reasons it's better to have it on one place, I think.

As a stop gap we could use the preferredURI predicate, tho unsure that's ideal ..

I forgot where that is defined? How is it defined there?


Any thoughts?